One of the central goals in computational and systems biology is to understand the mechanisms of gene transcriptional regulation
on a system-wide level. The efforts are often based on high-throughput genomic data of model organisms such as S. cerevisiae.
The goal of this work is to learn a model of gene regulation predicting under which conditions genes are up- or down-regulated.
Our starting point is the model of Middendorf et al. [1], where the presence of transcription factor binding sites (motifs) in the gene’s regulatory region and the expression
levels of regulators (e.g., transcription factors or protein kinases) are used to predict gene regulation. It is clear that
in this formulation, important information related to gene regulation is missing, for instance due to post-translational modifications.
Thus, information integration could be extremely useful to fill in and take into account various missing pieces of information
related to gene regulation.